Ansiano Hale's Mission

Ciao Family!
> Thank you all for your emails! it is always good to hear news from home. I cannot believe andy is home. that is crazy. i hope surgery goes well. keep me updated on him and tell him anziano steiner and i say hi. things are going well here in terni. last week we had a lot of new investigators in our district and it was really awesome. the members here in terni are getting really excited about missionary work because usually there are only 4 elders but now we have 6 elders in terni. Last week i forgot to tell you avout another way we find people. we have an english class where we teach english to people for free and then share a short spiritual message at the end. this last week anziano wald and i taught the advanced english class together. we felt like we actually contributed. its hard to feel like im contributing when i cant speak the language that well and when i cant understand people but the lord is teaching me so much. and i am contributing. it is scary to talk to people on the bus but the lord has blessed me so much. last week i was on a bus and i said this is so hard. then i just said i just need to talk so i talked to this lady i think i asked her where the best pizzeria was and i didnt understand what she was saying so she wrote it down but then we started talking and i gave her a plan of salvation pamphlet with our number on it because she had a family. it was cool. it was an answer that i can do something here. whenever i see people that look foreign i always talk to them. especially from nigeria because the chances are they speak english better than italian. and they are so friendly. i have met people from so many different countries. like albania, romania, russia, nigeria, afghanistan, germany and a lot more places i dont know how to say. its awesome. oh william is a less active member and he is doing all right but i think you might be talking about daniel who i might have told you the wrong name last week but daniel is doing pretty good. we think he found a job because we tried going back during the day and he wasnt there but we did teach the first lesson to him and his sons girlfriend rosana and it was so awesome. i might have already told you about it but i could truly feel the spirit testifying through me. right now we are doing a lot of finding work but have so many people we are just trying to set up anappointment with because they have so much potential. Oh yes last week we went to these waterfalls near terni and they were really big and really pretty it was awesome. today we are shopping. oh i cant remember if i told you we sing in centro on sunday to find people. we sing hymns and it is awesome. well i am learning so much here. thanks again for all your emails. oh we had zone conference yesterday and it was amazing. president and the aps and zone leaders and sister acerson spoke and i got to bear my testimony cause i am new but it was just a great experience. our mission president and his wife are amazing! oh one more thing. we went to this investigators house named mimo who fed us dinner and it was an experience. he is so funnny and has been an investigator for quite a while. over the years though with the missionaries he has stopped smoking and drinking.anyway first he fed us alot of pasta which was good, then when we were full he brings out these mozerella chesse balls that are almost the size of a raquet ball and says mangia tutti. eat it all. then a salad, chocolates, icecream and then he made us eat fruit. i had a banana and the biggest orange of my life. i was so full. it was so funny. well i will try to go send you pics right now. thank you all for your prayers i can feel them. i know this is the lords work. i recieve so so many tender mercies from Him everyday. i love the people in italy and am so happy i still have most of my mission left. love you all!
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